Tucker Carlson on “neocons” who agitated for war with Iran: “This is demonic influence, clearly”
Carlson: “No, countries don't become more free, they become much less free during war”
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From the March 2, 2026, edition of The Tucker Carlson Show, posted on YouTube
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So no, countries don't become more free, they become much less free during war. A spirit of violence descends, and people change fast, and calculations change. Political calculations change really fast, social trends change really fast, and people's attitudes change. And part of it is not political or temporal, it's spiritual. You can feel on people the bloodlust, the hate, and it accelerates.
And that explains what you're watching right now, which is the rage of the neocons, which doesn't make sense. That doesn't make any sense. They've been advocating for years that the U.S. government on behalf of Israel kill the Ayatollah Khamenei. They've been saying that for years. I've been in this 35 years and I've heard that every single year. They got it yesterday. Khamenei got killed.
Okay, you got what you wanted. It's Christmas morning. You just opened the present. Why are you mad? They're angrier than ever. This is the key to their psychology, and it's a spiritual principle. Bloodlust is never sated, just like any other kind of lust, it's never sated. Nothing is ever enough. You taste it on your tongue and you want more. It's like eating candy, it doesn't satisfy you. You're always hungrier for more.
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That's how quickly these things are moving, because a spirit has been unleashed, and violence does this every time. A spirit of violence and hate has been unleashed. My personal advice, having thought a lot about this, is don't feed it. This is demonic influence, clearly.